George Soros

Founder and Chairman, Open Society Institute

George Soros participated in the World Leaders Forum panel, Making
Globalization Work, in September 2006.

George Soros is chairman of Soros Fund Management, LLC. He
was born in Budapest
in 1930. He survived the Nazi occupation and fled communist Hungary in 1947 for England, where he graduated from
the London School of Economics. He then settled in the United States,
where he accumulated a large fortune through an international investment fund
he founded and managed. Mr. Soros has been active as a philanthropist since
1979, when he began providing funds to help black students attend Cape Town University
in apartheid South Africa.
He has established a network of philanthropic organizations active in more than
fifty countries around the world. These organizations are dedicated to
promoting the values of democracy and an open society. The foundation network
spends about $400 million annually. Mr. Soros is the author of nine books,
including most recently The Age of Fallibility: Consequences of the War on
Terror. His articles and essays on politics, society, and economics
regularly appear in major newspapers and magazines around the world.

Participated In

Description:
A discussion with distinguished panelists on solutions for some of the world's most pressing problems, such as debt, unfair trade, the "resource curse," the need to curb harmful emissions and world poverty. In conjunction with the Heyman Center, the Committee on Global Thought, and the Initiative for Policy Dialogue